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| easy_ham | "On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 MICGRANGER@aol.com wrote:\n\n> Concerning this mail, what is your intention?\n\nWhen posting to this list excerpts from books I've just read, I usually\nrefrain from adding any comments, letting the listmembers interpret them\nas they see fit.\n\nBut since you asked....\n\nI chose to post this text simply because I thought it was a particularly\nrisible example of Doyle's invincible faith and his refusal to accept the\nfucking obvious.\n\nbc\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357894,215/\nDate: 2002-09-29T00:40:00+01:00\n\n*UK latest:* Sacked regulator accuses her of 'unbearable pressure'.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357897,215/\nDate: 2002-09-29T00:39:57+01:00\n\n*Comment:* Prince Charles's attempts to meddle in politics show how detached he \nis from real life, says *Nick Cohen*.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T23:03:40-08:00\n\nIf you've been in Los Angeles for long enough to read this sentence, chances \nare you've spent more time stuck in traffic than you would care to consider. \nThat annoying fact of Southern California life is only going to become more \nannoying and more of a factor with time, which is the point of \"Car Trek,\" \ntonight's edition of \"By the Year 2000\" at 7:30 on KCET (Channel 28) [which] \nalso looks at the phenomena of \"carcooning\" in which...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357898,215/\nDate: 2002-09-29T00:39:56+01:00\n\n*Football:* Kolo Toure was among the goals as Arsenal gave Leeds a good hiding \nat Elland Road.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8357900,215/\nDate: 2002-09-29T00:39:54+01:00\n\n*Euan Ferguson* spends two days at the headquarters of a stationery supplier in \nSlough and finds the team is much nicer than Ricky Gervais's gallery of \ngrotesques. *Sketches of pain*[1]\n\n[1] http://www.newsisfree.com/Observer/review/story/0,6903,800788,00.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T04:04:00-08:00\n\nIt seems like ATTWS will offer a service that'll tell you where your friends \n(or children or spouse or whatever) are ... I haven't seen it announced, but \nfrom their \"Explanation of Rates and Charges. \"Find Friends service will only \nlocate a compatible mobile device with mMode service that (1) has granted you \npermission, (2) is turned on, (3) is registered on the AT&T Wireless GSM/GPRS \nnetwork, and (4) has not activated Be Invisible. Location services only provide \nthe location...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/07.html\nDate: 2002-09-07T22:25:08-08:00\n\nRael is plagued by MSIE instability on Mac OS X. I use a recent nightly build \nof Chimera as my default browser. 0.4 has some issues with plugins (or with \nQuickTime anyway) on 10.2, but the 0.5 builds are working great. Fast too! \nMozilla is ugly. MSIE is slow and unstable. Opera (on OS X) doesn't render too \nmany pages. OmniWeb and iCab are not keeping up. Chimera rocks. I have used \nChimeraKnight to do the updating. It also makes...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "David asked:\n> My wife noticed something odd. The nearly-full moon was about 30\n> degrees above the horizon. There was a notable glow on the horizon,\n> except under the moon. The moon seemed to be in a column of darkness\n> that was about three times the apparent width of the moon. We could see\n> the column over its entire length as a strip of sky darker than the sky\n> around it.\n>\n> Any of you ever see this? Do you have any idea what could have caused\n> it? I suspect it's due to some pecularity of the visual system, but\n> have no clear idea.\n\nI'm surprised to not find this phenomenon in Corlis. I could have sworn I\nsaw it there. He does have the somewhat similar dark sky between a rainbow\nand a secondary bow. I personally have seen a rainbow enclosing a\nsemi-circle of darker sky.\n\nI know I've read about pillars under the Sun and Moon elsewhere, but I can't\nrecall if they were reportedly dark or bright. I do know these sorts of\nthings are supposed to be quirks of optics not of the visual system. I'm\nsorry I haven't got any answers, but a search through some books on\natmospheric optics ought to turn a few hints up.\n\nBill\n\nWilliam Jacobs\nFreelance Unemployed Person\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html\nDate: 2002-09-24T02:35:59-08:00\n\nYou are not still using sourceforge, are you? If you have any hopes that they \nare anything but yet another business giving away a free service, then see \nthis: Selling Microsoft VisualStudio on the \"open source development platform\". \nNice touch. Click on the image for the original screenshot....\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/07.html\nDate: 2002-09-07T06:10:55-08:00\n\nI am thinking about getting a new Mac. Not any good reason for it though. I'll \ntry to wait it out for one of the new iBooks rumored for next spring. No new \nPowerBook next month if new models come out. No. I said no! Stop thinking about \nit. Don't do it. I said don't do it. No. No, it's a really bad idea. Don't. \nGeez. Stop it! No, not even if it has an even cooler monitor. Or a...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html\nDate: 2002-09-20T17:10:35-08:00\n\nYesterday Viridiana came to my place and dragged me out to look at the sky. It \nwas beautiful. Odd colors and light. Obviously we wondered what it was. Today \nJim explains it. (It was a rocket test from the Vandenburg air force base). \nVery neat. It was a bit too blurred out when I saw it, and there was too much \nstreet light to make a good photo, so I am happy to have found the photo from \nNASA...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/29.html#dooce\nDate: 2002-09-29T23:40:06-05:00\n\nReborn[1].\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.dooce.com/\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000619\nDate: 2002-09-30T00:33:14-06:00\n\nAnyone have a copy of Gill Sans or Bell Centennial I can borrow? I wonder if \nI'll ever have $250 to spend on fonts. *Update:* Kevin Marks[1], who is \nstupendously incredible for far more things than I can list here points out \nthat it's _included with OS X_. I knew Mac OS X included a lot of grat fonts[2]\n, but I don't know how I overlooked this. (Matthew Carter, I'd be happy to pay \nyou the two cents in royalties you probably get for selling $100 worth of \nfonts.) \n\nTufte notes: Terrie Miller[3]. \n\nFirst ammendement beer bash. \n\niSync Beta[4] (guess they learned a lesson from iCal) is out.\n\n\n\n[1] http://epeus.blogspot.com\n[2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/font.html\n[3] http://www.oreillynet.com/~terrie/tufte/\n[4] http://www.apple.com/isync/\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506002\nDate: Not supplied\n\nAfter the talk at UT Austin, I spent Saturday at the Turkey City science \nfiction writers' workshop at Bruce Sterling's place. Turkey City is a venerable \nscience fiction workshop that has spawned many good writers and a lexicon of \nscience fiction critical terms that is the de facto standard for understanding \nwhat works and what doesn't in a work of science fiction: \n\n Squid on the Mantelpiece \n\n Chekhov said that if there are dueling pistols over the mantelpiece in the \n first act, they should be fired in the third. In other words, a plot \n element should be deployed in a timely fashion and with proper dramatic \n emphasis. However, in SF plotting the MacGuffins are often so overwhelming \n that they cause conventional plot structures to collapse. It's hard to \n properly dramatize, say, the domestic effects of Dad's bank overdraft when \n a giant writhing kraken is levelling the city. This mismatch between the \n conventional dramatic proprieties and SF's extreme, grotesque, or visionary \n thematics is known as the \"squid on the mantelpiece.\" \n\n Card Tricks in the Dark \n\n Elaborately contrived plot which arrives at (a) the punchline of a private \n joke no reader will get or (b) the display of some bit of learned trivia \n relevant only to the author. This stunt may be intensely ingenious, and \n very gratifying to the author, but it serves no visible fictional purpose. \n (Attr. Tim Powers) \n\nI had the cold from hell all weekend and I'm jetlagged, but I wanted to get \nsome links up before I hit the sack. Until tomorrow! Link[1] Discuss[2]\n\n[1] http://www.sfwa.org/writing/turkeycity.html\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/cgivZf3AAhKkk\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85505975\nDate: Not supplied\n\n[IMG: http://www.craphound.com/images/electricball.jpg] Stefan sez: \"My \nbrother's friend Sue plays with high voltage. The linked-to page shows the \ngadget she used to photograph high voltage discharges in *water*.\" Link[1] \nDiscuss[2] (_Thanks, Stefan!_) \n\n\n[1] http://community.webshots.com/album/8426665GzkjEytinE\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/uzUstBTSpq7K\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381139,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:05:04+01:00\n\nNo retreat on PFI, unions are warned.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381140,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:05:03+01:00\n\nSinn Fein president accused of setting up IRA cell to kill 'informers'.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381147,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:04:56+01:00\n\n*Money:* Struggling mutual insurance society admits to scale of mis-selling.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,8365765,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nProfessionals are asking amateurs to sign up and help them glean valuable \ninformation about planets orbiting distant stars\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381141,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:05:02+01:00\n\nIt is eight years since botanist David Bellamy made a TV series. What went \nwrong, asks *Simon Hattenstone*. Quizzes[1] | Crossword[2] | Interactive guides\n[3] | Steve Bell[4] | Weblog[5] *Other news and comment**'Biggles Airways' plan \nto put RAF into tourism business*[6]\n\n[1] http://www.newsisfree.com/quiz/0,7476,349695,00.html\n[2] http://www.newsisfree.com/crossword/0,4406,180778,00.html\n[3] http://www.newsisfree.com/interactive/0,2759,192055,00.html\n[4] http://www.newsisfree.com/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html\n[5] http://www.newsisfree.com/weblog/0,6798,517233,00.html\n[6] http://www.newsisfree.com/military/story/0,11816,801625,00.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html\nDate: 2002-09-24T02:31:20-08:00\n\nThis Monkey Switch Ad is too funny. Huge smile on my face. :-) It was the \nwinner of a competition MacRumors had set up. (Via Nathan)...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381144,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:04:59+01:00\n\n*Politics:* Edwina Currie 'sad and indignant' at hearing John Major's admission \nof shame at their four-year affair.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html\nDate: 2002-09-20T17:10:35-08:00\n\nYesterday Viridiana came to my place and dragged me out to look at the sky. It \nwas beautiful. Odd colors and light. Obviously we wondered what it was. Today \nJim explains it. (It was a rocket test from the Vandenburg air force base). \nVery neat. It was a bit too blurred out when I saw it, and there was too much \nstreet light to make a good photo, so I am happy to have found the photo from \nNASA...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | ">David asked:\n>> My wife noticed something odd. The nearly-full moon was about 30\n>> degrees above the horizon. There was a notable glow on the horizon,\n>> except under the moon. The moon seemed to be in a column of darkness\n>> that was about three times the apparent width of the moon. We could see\n>> the column over its entire length as a strip of sky darker than the sky\n>> around it.\n>>\n>> Any of you ever see this? Do you have any idea what could have caused\n>> it? I suspect it's due to some pecularity of the visual system, but\n>> have no clear idea.\n\nBill Jacobs:\n> I'm surprised to not find this phenomenon in Corlis. I could have sworn I\n> saw it there. He does have the somewhat similar dark sky between a rainbow\n> and a secondary bow. I personally have seen a rainbow enclosing a\n> semi-circle of darker sky.\n>\n> I know I've read about pillars under the Sun and Moon elsewhere,\n> but I can't recall if they were reportedly dark or bright. I do know\n> these sorts of things are supposed to be quirks of optics not of the\n> visual system. I'm sorry I haven't got any answers, but a search\n> through some books on atmospheric optics ought to turn a few hints up.\n\nSome links:\n\ncomprehensive\nhttp://www.meteoros.de/indexe.htm\n\nAtmospheric Light Phenomena\nhttp://www.auf.asn.au/meteorology/section12.html\n\ninteresting observational stuff from the prior millenium including pix\n(click 1997 / colour plates)\nhttp://www.ursa.fi/ursa/jaostot/halot/ehp/index.html\n\nmore pix, many of which flip to negative to highlight details (hover cursor)\nhttp://idefix.taide.turkuamk.fi/~iluukkon/taivas/valok/88.html and\nsubsequent links\n\njohn k\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html\nDate: 2002-09-20T16:13:37-08:00\n\nJeremy writes about people who ignore basic language rules I entirely agree \nwith him. Writing \"how r u 2day.\" is the best way to make me shift my attention \nand respect away from you really fast. Another pet peeve: I have only been \nspeaking English on a regular basis for a bit more than three years, and even I \ncan grok the difference between \"you are\" and \"your\". As mjd wrote on clpm and \nsaid in the YAPC movie: \"You...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000200.html\nDate: 2002-09-29T10:59:19-08:00\n\nStrangely, I managed to get up before 9am (on a Sunday!) without the aid of an \nalarm clock. Not sure how that happened. I had some breakfast (muffin with \njelly and peanut butter, and strawberry drink) while catching up on...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/07.html\nDate: 2002-09-07T06:10:55-08:00\n\nI am thinking about getting a new Mac. Not any good reason for it though. I'll \ntry to wait it out for one of the new iBooks rumored for next spring. No new \nPowerBook next month if new models come out. No. I said no! Stop thinking about \nit. Don't do it. I said don't do it. No. No, it's a really bad idea. Don't. \nGeez. Stop it! No, not even if it has an even cooler monitor. Or a...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000201.html\nDate: 2002-09-29T11:52:44-08:00\n\nI forgot to write this up yesterday and didn't feel like forging the blog entry \ndate. Anyway, while taking a break from writing the book, I tried to finish up \nthe work on friends.zawodny.com before I ship it off to...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8381142,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T03:05:01+01:00\n\n*World latest:* Israel pulled its tanks and soldiers out of Yasser Arafat's \nWest Bank headquarters yesterday.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T23:03:40-08:00\n\nIf you've been in Los Angeles for long enough to read this sentence, chances \nare you've spent more time stuck in traffic than you would care to consider. \nThat annoying fact of Southern California life is only going to become more \nannoying and more of a factor with time, which is the point of \"Car Trek,\" \ntonight's edition of \"By the Year 2000\" at 7:30 on KCET (Channel 28) [which] \nalso looks at the phenomena of \"carcooning\" in which...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/07.html\nDate: 2002-09-07T22:25:08-08:00\n\nRael is plagued by MSIE instability on Mac OS X. I use a recent nightly build \nof Chimera as my default browser. 0.4 has some issues with plugins (or with \nQuickTime anyway) on 10.2, but the 0.5 builds are working great. Fast too! \nMozilla is ugly. MSIE is slow and unstable. Opera (on OS X) doesn't render too \nmany pages. OmniWeb and iCab are not keeping up. Chimera rocks. I have used \nChimeraKnight to do the updating. It also makes...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "> An illusionist has emerged after 24 hours underwater in a case in New York's\n> Times Square.\n\nI'd just like to recommend the newest Viz to ukers just for the hilarious \"David \nBlaine: Stalag Magician\". The ego'd one is in a WWII prison camp and sort of \ntrying to escape. Several times he seems to have escaped and the british \nofficers celebrate before it's revealed he's been buried alive or hiding in a \nfreezer. At one point he's asked why and says \"Well it's not for publicity\" \nCracking stuff.\n\nStew\n-- \nStewart Smith\nScottish Microelectronics Centre, University of Edinburgh.\nhttp://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~sxs/\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#colophon_3\nDate: 2002-10-01T00:23:58-05:00\n\n_Dean Allen_: About the author[1]. “The funniest thing Dean has ever \nwitnessed was some footage of narcoleptic dogs in a Nova documentary on sleep \ndisorders.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.textism.com/about/\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#colophon_2\nDate: 2002-10-01T00:22:28-05:00\n\n_Heather Hamilton_: About[1]. “I am that girl.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.dooce.com/about.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#colophon_1\nDate: 2002-10-01T00:11:05-05:00\n\n_Jason Gurley_: Rap Sheet[1]. “I once played drums in a band with no name \nthat never played a single gig anywhere.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.deeplyshallow.com/archive/000426.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85507259\nDate: Not supplied\n\nThe Antikythera mechanism, recovered off a sunken ship in Greece in 1900, is \nthought to be a clockwork device to calculate the orbits of the celestial \nbodies. New analysis of the remaining fragments shows that it was wicked-cool: \n\n The Greeks believed in an earth-centric universe and accounted for \n celestial bodies' motions using elaborate models based on epicycles, in \n which each body describes a circle (the epicycle) around a point that \n itself moves in a circle around the earth. Mr Wright found evidence that \n the Antikythera mechanism would have been able to reproduce the motions of \n the sun and moon accurately, using an epicyclic model devised by \n Hipparchus, and of the planets Mercury and Venus, using an epicyclic model \n derived by Apollonius of Perga. (These models, which predate the mechanism, \n were subsequently incorporated into the work of Claudius Ptolemy in the \n second century AD.) \n\n A device that just modelled the motions of the sun, moon, Mercury and Venus \n does not make much sense. But if an upper layer of mechanism had been \n built, and lost, these extra gears could have modelled the motions of the \n three other planets known at the time—Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. In other \n words, the device may have been able to predict the positions of the known \n celestial bodies for any given date with a respectable degree of accuracy, \n using bronze pointers on a circular dial with the constellations of the \n zodiac running round its edge. \n\nLink[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Mark!_)\n\n[1] http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1337165\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/UKW9AAQCsFibH\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/01.html#i_mean_why_not\nDate: 2002-10-01T00:06:36-05:00\n\n_Kevin Fanning_: Hallmark vs. Successories[1]. “At Successories you were \nmostly left alone. There'd be brainstorm meetings to come up with new topics to \ntackle (\"Howsabout 'Diligence'?\" \"No I think we did that one already, didn't \nwe?\") but mostly you could just hang around, bang away at whatever ideas you \nhad, show your manager what you were working on, and he/she'd give you \nfeedback, encouragement, tell you to keep at it, point to the poster of \nStick-to-it-iveness on their wall (Yes, we had our own brand of Successories \nposters hanging everywhere. I mean why not.) and give you the thumbs up.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.whygodwhy.com/archive/000071.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/30.html#un\nDate: 2002-09-30T23:57:43-05:00\n\n_Paul Ford_: East River Unconsecration[1]. “There are a lot of hearts \nunder the East River, and it took a long time for it to find mine.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://ftrain.com/east_river_unconsecration.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8424915,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T09:35:16+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/salon.gif ([Salon])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "> So now Osama bin Laden is Hitler. And Saddam Hussein is Hitler. And\n> George Bush is fighting the Nazis. \n\nSomeone should shout \"Godwin!\" at him at a press conference. Then he'd have to \nshut up. Or does that only work on Usenet?\n\nStew\n-- \nStewart Smith\nScottish Microelectronics Centre, University of Edinburgh.\nhttp://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~sxs/\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://boingboing.net/#85506836\nDate: Not supplied\n\nSlashdot's reporting that according to the current ish of Popular Science, an \nEaster Egg has been discovered in the transmission control software for the BMW \nM3: \n\n ...the proper combination of commands to the electronically controlled \n manual transmission will cause the car to rev up to 4000rpm and drop the \n clutch... \n\nAre we sure that this is a feature and not a bug? Link[1] Discuss[2]\n\n[1] http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/29/2232249&mode=flat&tid=126\n[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/SVZhehqjGbC\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418823,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:34:02+01:00\n\nTreasury admits that growth targets set in March have been destroyed by the \nworsening global economy.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412057,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T23:25:23+01:00\n\n(TBO)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412058,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T23:25:22+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/local6.gif ([Local6])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8404899,215/\nDate: 2002-09-30T19:25:01+01:00\n\n*Sydney dispatch:* An Afghan boy whose family was killed during massacres in \nMazar-i-Sharif has been denied asylum in Australia, says *David Fickling*.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8399728,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nAfter months of repairs to cracked fuel lines, the shuttle prepares for \nlift-off - an onboard video camera will relay live footage\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8417796,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T03:33:02+01:00\n\nIraq muddles US resolve with 'positive' talks in Vienna.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:15:36 -0500 (EST)\nJay Lake <jlake@jlake.com> wrote:\n\n\n<snip>\n\n>Second, one could make the assumption that ancient or future civilizations\n>would not be hydrocarbon based. There are alternative fuel sources,\n>including seabed methane, biomass and all the usual suspects -- solar,\n>hydro etc. Some of these could be exploited on a decidedly low-tech (ie,\n>emergent civilization) basis. However, it is difficult to conceive of an\n>industrial civilization that doesn't employ wheels, axles and bearings,\n>all of which require lubrication. I'm not an engineer (Robin, anyone?) but\n>it's my understanding that vegetable lubrication breaks down under stress,\n>and that oil or graphite lubricants are the only reasonable choices for\n>high temperature/high rotation applications, at least prior to extremely\n>advanced modes of chemical synthesis.\n\nThis is a good point. There are a lot of alternatives to hydrocarbon\nproducts derived from petroleum, but these have often been developed as\na replacement for petroleum after the technology has been established -\nthere is a growing industry in plant-derived plastics and lubricants,\nbut this is to replicate materials that have been previously created \nmuch more easily within the petrochemical industry.\n\nVegetable-derived lubricants have been used. The Russians used sunflower\noil in the lubrication systems of tanks and trucks during the second world \nwar, and work is being done in the UK to produce diesel fuel derived from\nwaste cooking oil from fast-food restaurants. \n\nJay's correct in his opinion that vegetable oil is not as durable as \npetroleum oil, but this is only because of the lack of sophistication \nof the chemistry involved. Synthetic fuels and lubricants are continuously\nbeing developed, and I don't see any problems with synthetics ultimately \nmatching the performance of the more conventional products. As the rock\noil runs out, plant oil derivatives *will* be developed to fill the\ngap. In parallel, changes will occur in the designs of the machines to \ncope with any changes in performance of the lubricants.\n\nMy big concern is if the technology were ever to be lost for some reason.\nRe-creating a petrochemical industry from scratch without petrochemicals\n(that is, going immediately to plant-based synthetics) would be extremely \ndifficult, especially if it were necessary to recreate *all* of the\npetrochemical-derived products (not just lubricants and fuels). I suspect\nthat, bearing in mind the ingenuity of the human race, it would happen,\njust at a different pace. Imagine an industrial revollution based on,\nfor example, methane from pig manure, or diesel oil from sunflowers.\n\nAll we would then have to do is get used to all the machines smelling\nlike pig farms and fish and chip shops...\n\nRobin Hill, STEAMY BESS, Brough, East Yorkshire\n\n\n\n********************************************************************\nThis email and any attachments are confidential to the intended\nrecipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended\nrecipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender.\nYou should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or\ndistribute its contents to any other person.\n********************************************************************\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8417754,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T03:29:20+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/aicn.gif ([AintItCoolNews])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418826,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:58+01:00\n\n*Politics:* Michael Portillo strode into the hostile territory of the Labour \nparty conference in Blackpool last night to mock David Blunkett as an \nauthoritarian rightwinger.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418824,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:34:00+01:00\n\n*Julian Glover*, who worked on John Major's autobiography for two years, on why \nEdwina Currie wasn't in it.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8390121,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T11:09:21+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/yahoonews.gif ([Yahoo])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63598\nDate: Not supplied\n\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63598\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html\nDate: 2002-09-24T02:31:20-08:00\n\nThis Monkey Switch Ad is too funny. Huge smile on my face. :-) It was the \nwinner of a competition MacRumors had set up. (Via Nathan)...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63309\nDate: Not supplied\n\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz&itemid=63309\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/30.html#wedding_etiquette\nDate: 2002-09-30T12:16:54-05:00\n\n_Margaret Berry_: Don't Be Rude: Part IV, Weddings[1]. “There's a lot of \nroom for error with invitations. It's helpful to think of them as petite social \nlandmines with quaint wax seals.”\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/dont_be_rude_part_iv_weddings.shtml\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418808,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:30:17+01:00\n\n(The Cincinnati Enquirer)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8406746,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T20:19:11+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/reuters.gif ([Reuters])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412855,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nThe modified form of vitamin D could be an effective new treatment for \nosteoporosis, says a US team\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8417752,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T03:29:22+01:00\n\n(ClickOnDetroit)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8421063,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T06:32:13+01:00\n\n(Some TV Guy)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8398677,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T16:15:14+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/sacbee.gif ([SacBee])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8404725,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T19:18:23+01:00\n\n(Some Guy)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,781616,00.html\n\nBritons stand tall, if slightly heavy, in Europe\n\nJohn Carvel, social affairs editor\nWednesday August 28, 2002\nThe Guardian\n\nNot every European dimension has been harmonised in Brussels yet. According\nto the Department for Trade and Industry, the average Briton stands head,\nshoulders, girth and bottoms above their continental partners.\nThe figures come in a new edition of the department's handbook of\nanthropometric and strength measurements, compiled by ergonomists at the\nUniversity of Nottingham to help manufacturers design products to fit\npeople's shape.\nThe volume provides 294 measurements ranging from the distance between the\ninner corners of the eyes to the length of the leg between the crease below\nthe buttock to the crease at the back of the knee.\nIt has discovered that the average British man is 36 millimetres (1 inches)\ntaller than his French counterpart.\nThe mean height of UK citizens is 1,755.1mm (5ft 9in). Among European men\nonly the Dutch are taller, averaging 1,795mm and with a clear height\nadvantage over the US men's average of 1,760.4.\nThe average British woman is 1,620mm tall (just under 5ft 4in), compared\nwith 1,604mm for her French counterpart, 1,610mm for the Italians and\n1,619mm for the Germans. Swedish women average 1,640mm, Dutch 1,650mm and\nAmericans 1,626.7mm\nMore disturbingly, British men and women are heavier than all the other\nnationalities except the Americans, averaging 79.75 kilos for British men\nand 66.7 for women.\nThe average British woman has a chest measurement of 1,007.8mm (39.7\ninches), compared with 965mm for the Italians, 912.6mm for the Japanese and\n806mm for Sri Lankans. American women also top this scale with an average of\n1,047.2mm.\nThe average British woman's waist is 840.6mm (33 inches) - also second\nlargest behind the Americans. But her bottom at 873.7mm is considerably\nsmaller than the Italians at 916mm who beat the Americans into second place.\nThe average British male foot is 266.8mm long (10.5 inches), 6mm longer than\nthe French and Germans, 3mm more than the Italians and 1mm more than the\nSwedes. But they are just beaten by the Americans at 267.8mm and massively\noutstripped by the Dutch at 275mm.\nHowever Dutch women have daintier feet than the British, averaging 240mm\ncompared with 241.1mm in the UK (9.5 inches). German women average 242mm,\ncompared with 245mm for the Swedes and 242.1mm for the Americans.\nThe DTI has a less than exhaustive record of ring finger lengths, but on the\navailable evidence the British man's finger at 78.7mm (3.1 inches) is 1.7mm\nlonger than his German counterpart, but 0.2mm shorter than the American\naverage.\nThe British woman's ring finger at 72.6mm is 0.4mm smaller than her German\ncounterpart and 0.3mm smaller than the American.\nBeverley Norris, research fellow at Nottingham university's institute for\noccupational ergonomics, said the figures were useful for product designers.\nThe department has recently completed a study of the pulling force needed to\nopen ring pull cans.\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8388719,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T10:08:11+01:00\n\n(Some Farker's roommate)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418833,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:51+01:00\n\n*Money:* Up to 70,000 former Equitable Life policyholders could be in line for \ncompensation as a result of mis-selling of policies.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html\nDate: 2002-09-20T16:13:37-08:00\n\nJeremy writes about people who ignore basic language rules I entirely agree \nwith him. Writing \"how r u 2day.\" is the best way to make me shift my attention \nand respect away from you really fast. Another pet peeve: I have only been \nspeaking English on a regular basis for a bit more than three years, and even I \ncan grok the difference between \"you are\" and \"your\". As mjd wrote on clpm and \nsaid in the YAPC movie: \"You...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/30.html#best\nDate: 2002-09-30T16:06:50-05:00\n\n_Heather Hamilton_: Very Best of the World's Worst[1]. “After watching \nlast night's premiere of \"The Very Best of the World's Worst Drivers: 2\" I \ntried to figure out what it was about these very best worst drivers that made \nthem the very best, but not really _the_ very best, because if they really were \n_the_ very best, wouldn't they have been featured on \"The Very Best of the \nWorld's Worst Drivers: 1\" ?”\n\n\n\n[1] http://www.dooce.com/mtarchives/09_30_2002.html\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8390122,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T11:09:20+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/sun.gif ([The Sun])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412059,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T23:25:21+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/xent.gif ([X-Entertainment])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8406748,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T20:19:09+01:00\n\n(Some Guy)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html\nDate: 2002-09-20T17:10:35-08:00\n\nYesterday Viridiana came to my place and dragged me out to look at the sky. It \nwas beautiful. Odd colors and light. Obviously we wondered what it was. Today \nJim explains it. (It was a rocket test from the Vandenburg air force base). \nVery neat. It was a bit too blurred out when I saw it, and there was too much \nstreet light to make a good photo, so I am happy to have found the photo from \nNASA...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "The Electronic Telegraph\n\n Emigrate to Russia? That's a steppe too far\n (Filed: 28/08/2002) \n \n \n So you think you've got it bad: fed up with Folkestone, bored with Birmingham\n or sick of Sheffield.\n \n Those 54 per cent of Britons - according to a Daily Telegraph/YouGov survey\n this week - who dream of a stress-free life in sunnier climes should perhaps\n heed a word of friendly advice on the realities of living abroad.\n \n Kommersant, a Russian daily newspaper, yesterday offered those dissatisfied\n with life in Blair's Britain a taste of what to expect should they choose to\n emigrate to provincial Russia.\n \n After reading about the gripes of affluent Britons, its tongue-in-cheek\n article admitted, however, that the grass was not always greener on the other\n side.\n \n \"The inhabitants of foggy Albion keen to travel could go to any Russian city\n deep in the provinces where things are quiet,\" said Kommersant.\n \n \"In any central Russian district, life, by British standards, is unseemingly\n cheap and remarkably laid back. By 11am most of the working population are\n becoming 'traditionally' relaxed.\"\n \n The time for elevenses in Britain - perhaps the opportunity for a quiet cup of\n tea and a chocolate Hobnob - is known in Russia as the Wolf Hour.\n \n It was so named in Soviet times because at 11am a wolf appeared from the\n famous animal clock at the Obrasov Puppet Theatre in Moscow. It is also\n opening time in the nation's vodka shops.\n \n And the vodka, like all other spirits, is cheap. Kommersant pointed out that\n \"the money a Briton can earn from selling even the most shabby house would be\n enough to support them at the local standard of living for the rest of their\n life.\n \n \"The local shops are full of all they would need and they could buy a bottle\n of whisky for kopecks.\"\n \n There are 100 kopecks in a ruble and the ruble is currently worth about a\n halfpenny in sterling.\n \n The whisky is cheap, however, because it is unlike anything the average Briton\n will have consumed before. It is made of samagon - home-distilled, moonshine\n vodka - coloured with tea, and is a popular beverage in rural areas and among\n diehard alcoholics.\n \n While alcohol is plentiful and cheap, food may not be so easy to come by. The\n newspaper pointed out that traditional British foodstuffs - it selected oxtail\n soup as an example - were in short supply. However, the wealth of the British\n settler should overcome the difficulty.\n \n \"For a modest reward in most Russian villages, the locals would happily cut\n off the tails from the entire collective farm's herd of cattle.\"\n \n One or two potential emigrés might be deterred by language difficulties. There\n are few English speakers to be found among the green hills of Tula on the\n Mongolian border.\n \n However, Kommersant pointed out, language difficulties were not considered a\n deterrent by the 13 per cent of Britons who nominated France as the country in\n which they would like to live.\n \n France, the Russian paper claimed, was a country \"where English is only known\n by the beggars, Belorussian prostitutes and Russian tourists\".\n \n Despite the low cost of living and the easy-going lifestyle, the Russian\n weather remains a major stumbling block for Britons.\n \n Even in the most temperate regions, winter temperatures of -20C are common.\n And somewhere like the Sakha Republic - east of Siberia and the coldest place\n in the world - enjoys just one month of summer and endures winter temperatures\n that drop below -70C. Houses are built on concrete stilts because the\n permafrost makes digging foundations impossible.\n \n Again, the Russian paper had a word of reassurance. While acknowledging the\n climatic problems, it said that \"thanks to global warming this difficulty will\n solve itself\".\n \n Kommersant also had an answer to the labour crisis that would be created in\n Britain if 54 per cent of its citizens decided to opt for a life in Russia.\n \n \"Thirty-three million Russians could be sent to Britain to replace the 33\n million who leave. We think that the required number could probably be found\n amongst our citizens.\"\n \n Unfortunately for those 33 million Russians, however, not one of those Britons\n surveyed who wanted to move abroad nominated the Russian steppes as their\n preferred new home.\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000205.html\nDate: 2002-09-30T23:14:34-08:00\n\nWatch out Yahoo Shopping and other shopping meta-sites. Google is at it again \nwith Google Catalogs. The only question in mind mind is this: Will it hit big \nthis Christmas shopping season or next year? Google Product Search and \nRatings....\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418831,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:53+01:00\n\n*Business:* Standard Life finally capitulates and cuts payouts on millions of \npolicies.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8410272,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T22:21:09+01:00\n\n(Philly.com)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/07.html\nDate: 2002-09-07T06:10:55-08:00\n\nI am thinking about getting a new Mac. Not any good reason for it though. I'll \ntry to wait it out for one of the new iBooks rumored for next spring. No new \nPowerBook next month if new models come out. No. I said no! Stop thinking about \nit. Don't do it. I said don't do it. No. No, it's a really bad idea. Don't. \nGeez. Stop it! No, not even if it has an even cooler monitor. Or a...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418832,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:52+01:00\n\n*Society:* Nurses and ancillary staff at a PFI hospital are set to win a legal \nbattle over equal pay that will cost the hospital £97m in back pay and add £13m \nto its annual wage bill.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8421991,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T07:33:15+01:00\n\n(orange-today.co)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8415146,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T01:27:10+01:00\n\n(canada.com)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "The Electronic Telegraph\n\n Six arrested for attacking Palio jockey who defected \n By Bruce Johnston in Rome\n (Filed: 28/08/2002) \n \n \n Police waded into the intrigues and enmities surrounding the Palio, Siena's\n traditional bareback horse race, for the first time yesterday, arresting six\n people for beating up a star jockey who defected to a rival team.\n \n \n Angry spectators attack Giuseppe Pes at the Palio horse race in Siena \n Giuseppe Pes, a champion jockey of Sardinian extraction who has won the Palio\n nine times in 38 runs, was closely associated with the Istrice, or Porcupine,\n contrada - section of town - until the race earlier this month.\n \n Istrice did not have a horse in the contest - only 10 of the 17 contradas take\n part in each Palio - but, despite promises to the contrary, moments before the\n off Mr Pes mounted the horse of Lupa, or She-Wolf.\n \n Lupa are Istrice's historic rivals, and the defection was not taken well. Lupa\n did not win, victory going instead to Tartuca, tortoise.\n \n As its supporters erupted into joyous celebrations, Mr Pes was pulled from his\n mount by Istrice members and savagely beaten and kicked for seven minutes.\n \n Mr Pes, 39, whose jacket with his contrada's colours was torn from his back,\n was sent to hospital with fractures, cuts and bruises.\n \n Three of his attendants who tried to intervene were also beaten. Police\n yesterday arrested six people they said had been identified as the attackers\n from video footage.\n \n Experts said it was the first time that members of a contrada - known as\n contradaioli - had been arrested for beating up a jockey, despite the fact\n that such episodes belong to the race's ancient traditions.\n \n The Palio, which was first raced in the 14th century, is held twice a year on\n the cobbles of Siena's main square. For weeks beforehand supporters parade\n through the city, singing, waving flags and wearing their contrada colours.\n But by the day of the race the good humour evaporates.\n \n The event has no rules and is prepared for and run amid an extraordinary\n undercurrent of intrigue and even violence. Jockeys may swap sides at the last\n minute, take bribes, and whip rivals' horses, and more, so long as they do not\n grab their reins.\n \n The origins of the contrada lie in the Middle Ages, when the neighbourhoods'\n boundaries were set out to aid the many mercenary companies hired to defend\n Siena's fiercely earned independence from Florence and other city states.\n \n The first Palio of the year takes place on July 2, to commemorate the miracles\n of the Madonna of Provenzano, and a second race on Aug 16 marks the feast of\n the Assumption of the Virgin.\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8406747,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T20:19:10+01:00\n\n(charlotte.com)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8394718,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T14:13:10+01:00\n\n(Some Dysfunctional Woman)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8390120,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T11:09:22+01:00\n\n(Doc Brown)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8418830,215/\nDate: 2002-10-01T04:33:54+01:00\n\n*Comment:* The suppression of debate shows Labour's leadership at its worst, \nwrites *Jonathan Freedland*.\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8391026,1440/\nDate: Not supplied\n\nCampaigners say this and other mega-projects renege on promises made by African \nleaders at the World Summit in Johannesburg\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8419990,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T05:31:18+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/sun.gif ([The Sun])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/comment/0,7493,781769,00.html\n\nHamza's horrid - but we must tolerate him\n\nRod Liddle\nWednesday August 28, 2002\nThe Guardian\n\nSheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, our maddest of mad mullahs and a cartoon bogeyman\nto scare the kiddies, spent a quiet and contemplative bank holiday playing\nwith his own children in Victoria Park, Hackney.\nI've often wondered what incendiary Islamic fundamentalist clerics do on\nstatutory public holidays. Head for the beach and maybe swing by B&Q on the\nway home, I had hoped. I had this beguiling vision of Hamza paddling in the\nsea, an ice-cream cone in his one good hand, the waves tickling his shins,\nand the sheikh mentally preparing to fix those pesky shelves in the kitchen\nfor once, instead of planning the extermination of Zionism and America and\nmaybe me and you, too.\nBut B&Q and a day at the seaside is probably beyond Hamza's budget since the\nBank of England froze his assets, so Victoria Park had to do. But he sounded\nhappy enough when I spoke to him, with the babble of tiny, cheerful, Islamic\nproto-warriors in the background.\nYou must know Hamza; he's the imam designed, it would seem, by the Daily\nMail's cartoonist Mac. Large metal hook in place of a left hand. One eye\ncovered by a patch, the other a baleful, watchful, milky-white. We don't\nmock the disabled any more these days, unless it's someone like Hamza whom\nwe don't like; then, if you'll excuse the inapt phraseology, the gloves come\noff. So Hamza is known (with that vaulting imagination typical of the\nBritish right) as \"Captain Hook\", in articles which usually call for his\narrest, or extradition to the US, or deportation back home to Egypt or maybe\noff to Pakistan or Afghanistan, where he fought the Russians for years and\nthus sustained his disabilities - anywhere, really; just out of here. And if\nwe can't lock him up or chuck him out of the country, maybe we can force him\nto shut up.\nBecause we don't like Hamza very much. We weren't that fond of him before\nSeptember 11, but afterwards, in that nervy, paranoid few months when we all\nthought the sky might fall in, our disapprobation turned into political\npersecution.\nAnd now the Daily Mirror is agitating again for his arrest because they've\ngot hold of secret videos of the man behaving in an even more inflammatory\nmanner, urging warfare on and looting of enemies of Islam. All out of\ncontext, and a very long time ago, says the imam, not unduly bothered. But\nperhaps he should be, because our reputation for broad-mindedness and\ntolerance towards people like Hamza was thinning even before the Mirror's\nscoop.\nHamza preaches, or preached, at the scary Finsbury Park Mosque - so, earlier\nthis year, the Charity Commissioners banned him from doing so because of his\nallegedly inflammatory remarks. I didn't know Charity Commissioners were\nmeant to do stuff like that.\nHe has had his passport seized and not returned; his assets have been\nfrozen. He is tailed by the police every now and then, and his access to the\nmedia is restricted by internal policing within broadcasting corporations\nand the press. And this last point is because, we tell ourselves, endlessly\n- repeating the mantra over and over again, and fervently wishing it to be\ntrue - Hamza is not \"representative\" of British Muslims, as if British\nMuslims were a simple, homogenous thing with a single voice that one could\nturn to every now and then for explanation. And perhaps succour.\nThe trouble is, in the first month or so after the twin towers attack he was\nrevealed to be rather more \"representative\" than the list of those\ngovernment-approved Muslim spokesmen who were - uncomfortably, I suspect -\ndragooned briefly into statements of support for the war against terrorism\nand a blanket condemnation of the Taliban.\nAn opinion poll commissioned by Radio 4's Today programme revealed that an\noverwhelming majority of British Muslims were against George Bush's crusade.\nOne in six were, to put it mildly, ambivalent about the attack on the US\n(the remainder condemned the attack unequivocally). A large majority thought\nthe war against terrorism was a war against Islam.\nWhich is what Hamza said, repeatedly. But it was something that, at the\ntime, we didn't want to hear. Now, if you quiz the man on present policy at\nhome and abroad he comes across - superficially, at least - as someone from\nthe liberal left. No war against Iraq; Britain to become independent of US\nforeign policy and attempt rapprochement with Arab states; stronger action\nagainst Israel; mistrust of global capitalism; redistribution of wealth.\nNor is he particularly anti-semitic, so far as I can tell, although I don't\nsuppose he will be holidaying in Eilat this year. In yesterday's Guardian,\nthe chief rabbi expressed a willingness to talk to Hamza and was grateful\nfor the sheikh's message of condolence when a London synagogue was attacked.\nWhich is not to say that Hamza is a peaceable Jeffersonian democrat who has\nbeen wilfully misrepresented: he is, without question, rather more\ninflammatory in private sermons to his own people than he is in public. His\nideology is an arid and uncompromising interpretation of Islam: he would be\nhappy, in a truly Islamic society, to stone women to death for adultery, for\nexample. You and I would find many - perhaps most - of his views utterly\nrepellent.\nAnd that's the point. Because Hamza is the true test of our apparent desire\nto be multicultural. Multiculturalism is not, surely, the cheerful\nappropriation of bits of inoffensive minority cultural behaviour by the\nruling hegemony. That is a sort of syncopated monoculturalism.\nMulticulturalism is, rather, the ability of society to tolerate views that\nare antithetical to the dominant culture - and maybe learn from them.\nThe FBI has been investigating Hamza, but, of course, has found nothing\nremotely incriminating. The real reason for his vilification and persecution\nis simply the pungency of his views.\nIt is often said that we should shut him up or arrest him because his\nrhetoric increases hostility against the Muslim population generally. This\nis a perfectly noble argument, but it does not wash.\nYou don't defuse a difficult situation by pretending it doesn't exist. And\nif British Muslims - maybe a minority, maybe not - feel a growing sense of\nunease or mystification at the direction of western foreign policy, it is\nnot because they have been led in that direction by Hamza. Shutting the man\nup, therefore, won't make a difference.\nIt is rather as Louis MacNeice had it:\nThe glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever.\nBut if you break the bloody glass, you won't hold up the weather.\n\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/000622\nDate: 2002-09-30T17:28:45-06:00\n\nAaron Warchalker will probably be on Public Radio's Marketplace tomorrow \nevening. I tried to cut down on the number of \"you know\"s but I didn't do too \nwell. :-( I'll keep trying.\n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/24.html\nDate: 2002-09-24T02:35:59-08:00\n\nYou are not still using sourceforge, are you? If you have any hopes that they \nare anything but yet another business giving away a free service, then see \nthis: Selling Microsoft VisualStudio on the \"open source development platform\". \nNice touch. Click on the image for the original screenshot....\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8423195,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T08:34:10+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/yahoonews.gif ([Yahoo])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,8417753,1717/\nDate: 2002-10-01T03:29:21+01:00\n\n[IMG: http://www.newsisfree.com/Images/fark/mdn.gif ([MDN])]\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8412060,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T23:25:20+01:00\n\n(Some guy with lice)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8410270,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T22:21:11+01:00\n\n(DPO)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T23:03:40-08:00\n\nIf you've been in Los Angeles for long enough to read this sentence, chances \nare you've spent more time stuck in traffic than you would care to consider. \nThat annoying fact of Southern California life is only going to become more \nannoying and more of a factor with time, which is the point of \"Car Trek,\" \ntonight's edition of \"By the Year 2000\" at 7:30 on KCET (Channel 28) [which] \nalso looks at the phenomena of \"carcooning\" in which...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "http://yorkshirepost.co.uk/ed/front/481722\n\nPro-hunt activists target top sight\n\nONE of Yorkshire's most famous sights yesterday became one of the first\ntargets in bizarre attacks on White Horse landmarks linked to the hunting\ndebate.\nVillagers near Thirsk could not believe their eyes when they woke yesterday\nto find the famous White Horse of Kilburn had acquired a rider during the\nnight.\nIn another incident, the Uffington white horse in Oxfordshire had a huntsman\nand three hounds added to the ancient figure, which is thought to represent\na Celtic god or tribal symbol.\nPro-hunt activists in the Real Countryside Alliance (RCA) a radical\nalternative to the better-known Countryside Alliance admitted\nresponsibility last night for targeting the two images.\nThe 314ft by 228ft landmark at Kilburn has been lovingly preserved since it\nwas carved in the limestone by schoolmaster John Hodgson and his pupils in\n1857.\nBut during Monday night someone nailed on a massive figure of a huntsman\nwith a horn which had been cut to scale out of a single piece of white\ncarpet. It was removed yesterday by members of Kilburn White Horse\nAssociation, who found a Countryside Alliance badge attached to the carpet.\nJohn Roberts of the association said: \"It has obviously been very well\norganised. It was a well crafted piece of kit: a figure of a huntsman with a\nhorn cut out of carpets.\n\"It was big and impressive and could be seen for miles about. They tied it\nto bushes at the top and nailed it down. It caused all the stone chippings\nto be pushed downwards, which will help turn the white horse grey. It will\nnot get another refit for another year.\n\"Whoever did it must have come with a vehicle a tractor and trailer or a\nlorry because the carpet must have come in one piece. It was extremely\nwell planned and took several people an hour and a half to get it off.\"\nThe sculpture needs constant work because, unlike chalk horses in the south\nof England, it is cut into limestone which is the wrong colour and needs\nwhitening.\nMr Roberts added: \"The damage as such is not great but it adds to the\ndeterioration, which means it will need more work next time.\n\"We would have more sympathy if, having made the point, they would come to\ntake it away again because it was a major job.\"\nAndy Wilson, chief executive of the North York Moors National Park, said:\n\"It is a scheduled ancient monument and the local residents are very proud\nof it and go to enormous trouble to keep it white. There is also careful\nconsideration of what shape it should be kept with the constant growth of\nvegetation so you can understand the alarm and regret at any changes. There\nhas not been a cut in the turf which would be much more of a problem. It\nwould seem it was carefully plotted beforehand.\"\nAn RCA spokesman said: \"Some people in the country are getting very\nfrustrated at the inaction. All we want is Ministers to take notice. Marches\ndon't seem to be doing anything good.\"\nThe Countryside Alliance said it did not have any part in the action.\nSpokesman Adrian Yelland said: \"The Countryside Alliance only ever advocates\ncampaigning that is lawful and dissociates itself from acts of vandalism and\nregrets any damage that may have been caused by this incident.\"\nThe incident follows graffiti on road signs and motorway bridges in\nYorkshire thought to be RCA work.\n\n------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->\n4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now\nhttp://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/7gSolB/TM\n---------------------------------------------------------------------~->\n\nTo unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:\nforteana-unsubscribe@egroups.com\n\n \n\nYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ \n\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8404724,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T19:18:24+01:00\n\n(canada.com)\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/12.html\nDate: 2002-09-12T17:08:46-08:00\n\nThe Oracle of Google can answer multiple choice questions amazingly well ... \nWho is the author of Perl?, What family lives next door to the Simpsons?. As \nthe author points out on the about page; this thing would be really useful in a \n\"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire\" type contest. =)...\n\n\n" |
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| easy_ham | "URL: http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-1,8410273,1717/\nDate: 2002-09-30T22:21:08+01:00\n\n(dayton daily news)\n\n\n" |